Hybrid White Corn White Jewel (81 days) A high quality white hybrid. Greatly appreciated by both the home gardener and the fresh market grower who demand the highest quality available. White Jewel has out standing resistance to bacterial wilt. Ears are over 7" long with 14-16 rows of deep, narrow, attractive white, very tender kernels with a sweet flavor. A “must” variety when quality is appreciated. Silver Queen (94 days) A full season white kernel hybrid. This high quality hybrid with long 8-9" tapered ears well filled, with 14-16 rows of small white kernels has a delicate, creamy, sweet flavor. Attractive ears with a deep green husk and many dark green flag leaves make this an attractive fresh market variety and brings repeat customers. Excellent resistance to bacterial wilt. An excellent full season white hybrid for home garden and fresh market use. CUCUMBERS Slicing Hybrids (White Spine) Spartan Valor (63 days) An All-American gynoecious hybrid developed by Dr. E. E. Petersen at Michigan State University. A long, slender, dark green fruit that doesn’t jumbo. It is early and a vigorous producer. Fruits cylindrical. Highly resistant to mosaic and scab and very free from color mottling or speck ling. Its prolific, attractive fruits make Spartan Valor stand out for garden and market use. Slicing, Non-hybrid (White Spine) Tablegreen 63 (68 days) A beautiful cucumber when grown at high fertility levels. Fruits are 8" to 9" long, fairly smooth, very dark green, attractive and uniform. Vines are very vigorous and bear over a long period. This variety has been known to bear for three weeks longer than many others. Resistant to scab and mosaic. Developed at Cornell. EGGPLANT Early Sheer F, Hybrid (68 days) Early verticillium-resistant moneymaker developed by Agway. One of the earliest eggplants on the market, also one of the most prolific. The plants average about 2' tall, are upright and very sturdy, keeping the fruit well off the ground. Fruits are dark purple, cylindrical and about 6"-7" long and 2"-3" in diameter with a very appealing tear drop shape. Typical of a hybrid, the fruits and plants are uniform in size, shape, and color making a handsome market pack. ENDIVE Salad King (97 days) Agway’s most popular home garden and roadside stand variety. A vigorous grower with attractive finely cut leaves. Very slow to bolt, will grow well under warm con ditions. Full hearted, very large plants, 22"-24" in diameter. Will withstand fall rains and early frosts. Outer leaves dark green. May be blanched by gathering together the outer leaves, when dry, in a conical form at the top and tied to gether. LETTUCE Leaf Type Black Seeded Simpson (65 days) A special Agway strain and the most popular loose leaved variety for markets and home garden use. Leaves are large, loose and slightly crumpled on the edges. Sow seed every two to three weeks for a continuous supply. A very popular variety as it produces under a wide range of conditions. iceberg Type Pennlake M. T. (75 days) An early maturing Great Lakes type, but without the usual objectionable ribiness. It is now widely planted in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and New England. Pennlake is distinctive for its uniformity of plant and head type, thus insuring a high percentage of marketable heads at first cutting. The heads are well protected from scald by broad, infolding wrapper leaves. Besides earliness, other features are medium sized, thick-leaved, slow-bolting, crisp head. Somewhat resistant to tipburn. Heads round, firm; quality good. Used primarily as an early seeded or trans plant crop. Best suited home garden head lettuce. MUSKMELONS Harper Hybrid (90 days) The finest tasting melon Agway has ever offered. Resis tant to fusarium wilt. Vines will often remain healthy and plants continue to be productive right up to frost. Heavy yields. Fruits 5Vi " in diameter are finely netted, with flesh of excellent flavor and quality. Very popular in many local markets and roadside stands for the holding ability of this hybrid after reaching full-slip. An excellent home garden variety for the same reason. The fine-grained, yet juicy and flavorsome flesh is most appreciated by those looking for a high-quality cantaloupe. An early maturing hybrid. PEAS Progress #9 (62 days) An improved strain. Dark green pods AVz" to 5" long on vines only 18" to 20" high that do not require support. Produces high yields of peas of excellent quality. Agway’s strain is a slightly more erect vine with longer and straighter pointed pods containing from 7-9 peas. Peas are dark green, oval, large, very good flavor. Used for canning, freezing, and market. An all around variety suited for home, market gar den and bulk shipment. In eastern Pennsylvania where Progress #9 is often grown for a fall crop, seed should be sown the second week in August. Progress #9 outsells all other varieties by at least 3 to 1.
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